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Amazon received $112 million in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants from Kentucky communities to build 21 facilities.
Advocacy group Good Jobs First, which opposes such subsidies, found Kentucky provided the ninth-highest amount of grants and breaks among U.S. states to the nearly $1-trillion company.
Kentucky is ranked behind Tennessee (20 projects/$166 million) and ahead of Missouri (2 projects/$111 million), Massachusetts (5 projects/$87 million), and California (12 projects/$85 million).
Arlington, Virginia was awarded the largest portion of the 310 taxpayer-subsidized Amazon projects.
The most expensive subsidy provided in Kentucky was by the Hebron government, which offered $75 million to Amazon for a various state and local subsidies for an expansion at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
The second largest subsidy was worth $19 million for a state subsidy in Campbellsville.
There were no developments which received undisclosed subsidy amounts.
As of Nov. 17, 2022, Amazon had received 310 separate tax break deals from local and state governments across the U.S., totaling $5.14 billion.
| State | # Projects | Total Subsidy |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 20 | $824,291,799 |
| Illinois | 16 | $732,973,199 |
| New York | 22 | $671,446,986 |
| Washington | 10 | $608,644,670 |
| Oregon | 32 | $483,459,645 |
| Texas | 13 | $305,959,751 |
| Ohio | 14 | $172,418,555 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $166,030,438 |
| Kentucky | 21 | $111,789,976 |
| Missouri | 2 | $110,600,000 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $86,979,275 |
| California | 12 | $84,541,000 |
| Michigan | 5 | $82,352,146 |
| Maryland | 3 | $68,425,000 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $64,297,962 |
| Indiana | 15 | $60,389,500 |
| Alabama | 2 | $56,500,000 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $54,135,500 |
| Louisiana | 7 | $48,967,587 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $45,422,240 |
| Florida | 13 | $43,239,475 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $37,700,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | $31,186,975 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $29,557,871 |
| Georgia | 5 | $27,115,929 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $23,925,795 |
| Iowa | 2 | $22,400,000 |
| Kansas | 2 | $21,802,522 |
| Colorado | 9 | $15,779,091 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $11,207,651 |
| Utah | 3 | $9,780,226 |
| Delaware | 2 | $7,972,500 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $5,700,000 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $5,244,071 |
| Arizona | 2 | $5,139,671 |
| Nevada | 5 | $3,251,324 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $2,700,000 |
| Maine | 11 | $578,828 |
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